Power of apprehension

(1) Where any person is found committing, or is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing, an offence against this Act or against any Regulations made thereunder, any police officer may without warrant stop and detain him, and if his name and address are not known to the police officer and he fails to give them to the satisfaction of the police officer, such police officer may without warrant apprehend him and may, whether he has so stopped, detained or apprehended such person or not, stop, detain and examine any animal, animal product, carrier, carcass, litter, fertilizer, feeding stuff, biological, plant material, plant product or other thing, to which the offence or suspected offence relates, and require it to be forthwith taken back to or into any place or district wherefrom or whereout it was unlawfully removed, and execute and enforce that requisition. (2) If any person obstructs or impedes a police officer or a designated officer in the execution of this Act or of any Regulations made thereunder, or assists in any such obstructing or impeding, the police officer or designated officer may, without warrant, arrest the offender. Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP. 211 51 (3) A person apprehended under this section shall not be detained without warrant longer than is necessary for the purpose of being taken before a magistrate, and the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Procedure) Act, and the Bail Reform Act, in relation to the granting of bail, shall apply to any such person.